Just north of the almost-Ghost Town of Hooper in Colorado’s beautiful and weird San Luis Valley, there’s a truly oddball roadside attraction known as the UFO Watchtower. Local rancher Judy Messoline opened the elevated viewing platform (and the required gift shop full of Flying Saucer trinkets & gewgaws) to capitalize on the valley’s long history of bizarre aerial phenomena and the wave of UFO-conspiracy teevee shows in the 1990s.

At a hearing on Tuesday, a Florida judge ordered diet company Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. to hand over documents pertaining to the firm’s marketing strategy. The order came as part of a lawsuit against the company, brought by a former dieter who claims the popular Atkins low-carbohydrate regimen caused him serious health problems.

Even for many Catholics, this pope at the end of his physical strength, refusing to relinquish his power, is the symbol of a fraudulent church that has calcified and become senile behind its glittering façade.

Growing populations and expanding economic activity have strained the planet’s ecosystems over the past half century, a trend that threatens international efforts to combat poverty and disease, a U.N.-sponsored study of the Earth’s health warned on Wednesday.

Despite a rising chorus of condemnation from journalists and media critics, the George W. Bush administration shows no signs of abandoning its distribution of taxpayer-funded “news” to U.S. newspapers, radio and television stations.

The U.S. government’s oversight of whistleblower protection policies at some of the world’s most influential financial powerhouses is inadequate to protect those who risk their careers by calling attention to corruption and irregularities, a leading watchdog group said Tuesday.

In 1905, at the age of 26 and four years before he was able to get a job as a professor of physics, Einstein published five of the most important papers in the history of science–all written in his “spare time.”

In one of the largest demonstrations in Taiwan’s history, about a million people marched through the capital on Saturday to protest a new Chinese law that authorizes an attack on the island if it moves toward formal independence.

The Haida Nation has set up a number of blockades around the Queen Charlotte Islands to protest the transfer of Weyerhaeuser’s tree-farm licence to Brascan, complaining it wasn’t properly consulted by British Columbia (B.C.) provincial government.

Yet another nail was hammered into the coffin of the GM food industry in Britain yesterday when the final trial of a four-year series of experiments found, once more, that genetically modified crops can be harmful to wildlife.

$200 Billion spent and 2 years later Iraq is still a mess with many stil having no running water or power and 48% unemployment. Most of the money ‘reconstruction’ has gone into the pockets of US criminal corporations.

In a letter to Reuters, the Pentagon says it will not reopen an investigation into the case of three unembedded Iraqi journalists who say US soldiers tortured and sexually abused them while they were working for the London-based news service last year.

In a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents’ generation or earlier.

Two decades after the United States backed a civil war against Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government, a top Sandinista official said Tuesday Washington is meddling again, leveling accusations against party leader Daniel Ortega to try to prevent him from returning to the presidency.

The resistance in Iraq hits its “tipping point” when Negro Ponte decided to use his trade mark Death Squads against the insurgents with imputiny. Aside from scattered incidents the freedom fighters are losing power as they are hunted down by masked Death Squad Shiite thugs.

WHERE DO respect and dignity for life begin and end? This question was raised during a family vacation at the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y. For the last four years, we have been sponsoring a pig that narrowly escaped someone’s outdoor barbecue.

In an explosive new report, investigative journalist Greg Palast charges that President Bush was planning to invade Iraq before the September 11th attacks and was considering two very different plans about what to do with Iraq’s oil.

A network of about 40 civil society organisations working with smallholder farmers in Tanzania has cautioned the government against its plans to introduce genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the country.

Europe could see a series of new biotech foods quietly approved with no influence from EU governments if they cannot escape from years of deadlock over genetically modified (GMO) foods, green groups have warned.

Sonar pulsing from a Navy guided-missile destroyer during training exercises near the San Juan Islands two years ago was likely loud enough to send killer whales fleeing, according to a recent report from the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Several groups from the anti-corporate globalisation movement are joining forces to drum up opposition to the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz, a neo-conservative Pentagon official close to Pres. George W. Bush, to the highest post in the World Bank.

Political refugee Bobby Fischer may get a new home in Iceland after sitting in jail in Japan since last July awaiting extradition to the US. His heinous crime – playing chess in Yugoslavia when Daddy Bush didn’t like it.

The US has formally included in key strategic plans provisions for launching preemptive strikes against nations thought to pose a threat. Translated into reality, the US will attack countries that stand up to it or which have something that it wants, such as oil or a pipeline route to oil.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) who is backing a bill that would make it easier for parents to block military recruiters from gaining access to their high school-aged children. The bill seeks to amend a provision of the No Child Left Behind Act that requires school districts to provide the Pentagon the names, addresses and phone numbers of every student in the school.

Not only did the US loot the Iraqi treasury, steal their cash frozen in foreign accounts and rob oil revenues, Bush buddies have been making off with Billions of US taxpayer’s money meant for reconstruction.

Why do whales in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be moving together and coherently? What is impelling them forward. How do they communicate with each other, seemingly over thousands of miles of ocean? And how can this acoustical habitat be protected?

John Bolton is Bush’s choice for Ambassador to the UN, even though he claims “There is no United Nations”, fiercly opposed the world criminal court and believes that Cuba manufactures biological weapons.

U.S. scientists from the University of Washington sent a research vessel over the weekend after seismic equipment detected nearly 3,800 small quakes in an area known as the Endeavour Hot Vents on Thursday.

Scientists working at the Copan archaeological site in western Honduras said Sunday they have unearthed the 1,450-year-old remains of 69 people, as well as 30 previously undiscovered ancient Mayan buildings.

On Saturday, March 5th, 2005 I called Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM late-night radio talk-radio program – at least 50 times. I got through to Art once, at approximately 1:45 am. I had quite a few talking points I wanted Art’s guest to address…

It is quite ironic that the US once again posed as the “the world human rights police” and recently released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004 while totally ignoring it’s own gross violations of human rights and crimes against humanity.

With Sibel Edmonds once again in the news, and with media interest in her case increasing, it’s worth speculating about her knowledge by attempting to connect some of the many dots found in a public record that stretches back into the Ford Administration.

A jury was sworn in today for the trial of five anti-war protesters who demonstrated for peace at Shannon Airport February 3rd. They face up to 10 years in prison and have already spent between 4 and 11 week in Limerick prison. US soldiers who torture and murder innocent Iraqis are usually promoted or given a slap on the wrist at worst.

Last Friday, U.S. soldiers in Iraq shot at the car of Italian journalist – Giuliana Sgrena – killing an Italian intelligence agent and wounding three others. Not the first journalist attacked, the case highlights the US war on truth.

Leanna Standish, ND, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Bastyr University in Seattle, calls the phenomenon “distant neural signaling.” She agrees it sounds kind of whacky, and she can’t explain why it works with some people and not others, but after several experiments, she’s convinced the phenomenon is real.

China issued a tit-for-tat report card Thursday on human rights in the United States that lambasted the Pentagon for “wanton slaughters” abroad, belittled American elections as awash in special-interest cash and accused U.S. courts of deep-seated racial bias.

“As part of sweeping “economic restructuring” implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds, which include seeds the Iraqis themselves have developed over hundreds of years. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations.

Under public pressure the Dictator of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, has called on parliament to change the constitution to allow opposition candidates to run for president. Famed Egyptian psychiatrist, author & advocate of equality, Nawal El Saadawi has decided to run for President.

America proves again that war criminals & terrorists are our most loved and protected. Salvadoran Generals guilty of the most heinous crimes againt humanity under direction of the CIA had a $54 million judgement against them reversed by a federal appeals court.

“America, love it or leave it.” That’s what a lot of us resisters and conscientious objectors heard back in the sixties and seventies. I was one of the ones who took the advice literally. The United States seemed like a foreign country to me then, and it still does now.

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